TRUSTING RUSSIA? ( with my bicycle.......maybe)

When I was an elementary school near our Mexican Border (on the American side), I used to teach a simple concept to the Spanish kids who were "Mexican," and wanted to speak Spanish in an American class room.
     " This is a great country we live in, " I would extol, pointing a hundred yards south of our school at the metal fence, beyond which was the prairie of Mexico. Occasionally, one could say an illegal alien crawling over it, fleeing INTO to the US.
    I would make the point that, " you can always tell the greatness of a country BY THE WILLINGNESS OF ANY PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO GET INTO OUR COUNTRY, not by their willingness to get out."
    It was not lost on them. Then we would study about countries that would rule their people with armed border guards, those that would kill their citizens who did try to leave, or talk back, or cross chalk lines in pavements, or try to vote, or not vote, or vote for people NOT approved by the dictator in control.
    Like Russia, for instance. Those wonderful folks who executed over 22,000 helpless Polish Army officers in the Katyn forests in WWII. Methodically shooting each one in the back of the head, then lying, blaming it on the Germans, no saints, themselves. That was a real race to the finish for the award for demonic hell awaiting either nation.
    Joe Stalin, it is said, killed 25 million of his own. German like efficiency struck home when to save bullets, he strapped two heads together and blew one bullet through them both. One shot, two dead. Adolph would have been proud. About 25 million of his own countrymen died, and women, and children, and old people. And that in a country that boasts the oldest in the world - 125 years old in one section where they only eat yogurt. Killed them, anyway.
    Joe invented the NKVD, secret police, Lubvenka, the HQ where countless went to die, quietly, a real slaughter house, the roach motel where the trench coat crowd honed their skills at dismembering the faithless towards the anti-Joe Stalin movement.
    Flesh-forward to the modern day movement, the KGB, same story, now " white washed " in and out of existence and we have Vladmir Putin, the new top-dog in Russia. He's the new growly top-dog in charge in Russia. He thinks he's in charge. He's got our guy cowed.
    So far, he's eaten Ukraine, Crimea, and he thirsts for the old Soviet Union, but methinks he is heading for major screw ups as big and as bad as his protege, Herr Obama on this side of the Atlantic.
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